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Digital with Purpose: Delivering a Smarter2030 Digital with SUMMARY Purpose: Delivering a GESISMARTer2030 GESI Contents Foreword 4 Key Messages 6 Executive Summary 10 GESICase Studies 22 AT&T 24 Deutsche Telekom 28 EIT Climate-KIC 32 T-Mobile 36 Verizon 40 This document is an excerpt from the full report, for more information visit: digitalwithpurpose.gesi.org 2 About the authors Digital with Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030 About the authors About GeSI About Deloitte The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) is a strategic Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu partnership of the Information and Communication Technology Limited (“DTTL”), its global network of member firms, and their (ICT) sector and organisations committed to creating and promoting related entities. DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) and technologies and practices that foster economic, environmental and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent social sustainability. Formed in 2001, GeSI’s vision is a sustainable world entities. DTTL does not provide services to clients. Please through responsible, ICT-enabled transformation. GeSI fosters global see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more. and open cooperation, informs the public of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their sustainability performance, and promotes Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, technologies that foster sustainable development. consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services. Our network of member firms in more than 150 countries and GeSI enjoys a diverse and global membership, representing around territories serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies. 40 of the world’s leading ICT companies and partners with over Learn how Deloitte’s more than 286,000 people make an impact that 12 global business and international organisations such as the matters at www.deloitte.com International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations GESIFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Deloitte Consulting delivers strategy and implementation, from a Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Business Council business and technology view, to help clients lead in the markets for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the World Resources Forum where they compete. Association (WRFA) - as well as a range of international stakeholders committed to ICT sustainability objectives to share and develop ideas, Deloitte’s Purpose and Sustainability Strategy team in particular helps launch joint initiatives, and collaborate on a broad range of sustainability clients to articulate their role in society, embed a commitment to societal projects. These partnerships help shape GeSI’s global vision regarding impact into their core business model, and measure that impact to the evolution of the ICT sector, and how it can best meet the challenges ensure long-term success. of sustainable development. For more information, see www.gesi.org Deloitte’s Economic Consulting team combine analytical foresight with CONTACT INFORMATION commercial acumen to shape strategy and policy that unlocks economic, Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) financial and social value. c/o Scotland House, Rond Point Schuman 6 CONTACT INFORMATION 1040 Brussels, Belgium Purpose and sustainability strategy consulting: Tel: +32 2 282 84 42 [email protected] Fax: +32 2 282 84 14 Economic Consulting: General enquiries: [email protected] or [email protected] [email protected] Press enquiries: [email protected] UK Chair: [email protected] Acknowledgements The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative and Deloitte thank the Case study development: AT&T: John Schulz, Louise Stimie, Tim many people who have contributed, including use case providers and Fleming; Deutsche Telekom: Birgit Klesper, Michael Kimberger; EIT subject matter experts, who generously provided their time, insights, and Climate-KIC: Felicity Spors, Rahul Bansal, Sira Saccani; T-Mobile: Alex feedback to strengthen the quality of this report. Rosenthal, Chad Wilkerson; Verizon: James Gowen, Serhad Doken, Particular thanks go to the core #DIGITALWITHPURPOSE team: Matthew Smith-Marino, Sanyogita Shamsunder, Winfred Chao, GeSI project lead: Luis Neves Greta Knappenberger Supporting team: Yanying Li, Andrew Lewis Deloitte Consulting: Sam Baker, Rafi Addlestone, Claire Butler, Hannah Steering committee: AT&T: Tim Fleming; Dell: John Pflueger; Telstra: White, Ollie Harris, Elena Kalyva, Justine Autour, Matthew Raja Kumar, Pauline Gregg; Taiwan Mobile: Iris Liu; EIT Climate-KIC: Sira Saccani Tash Abrahams, Hope Davidson, Harry Burton Expert panel: Christiana Figueres, Jeffrey Sachs, Elizabeth Corley, Deloitte Economic Consulting: Sam Blackie, Andy Tong, Matthew Lise Fuhr, Carlo Jaeger, Malcolm Johnson, Georg Kell, Dirk Messner, Sinclair, Nicola Delf, Ian Rodger, Lisa Reisch Nick Owen (Deloitte LLP), Chris Tuppen, Veerle Vandeweerd Design support: Tenacity Works www.tenacityworks.com Copyright © GeSI 2019. All rights reserved. Digital with Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030 About the authors 3 GESIGold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Disclaimer This publication has been prepared by Deloitte MCS under the terms Deloitte MCS Limited is registered in England and Wales with registered of the contract with GeSI. This publication has been written in general number 03311052 and its registered office at Hill House, 1 Little New terms and therefore cannot be relied on to cover specific situations; Street, London, EC4A 3TR, United Kingdom. application of the principles set out will depend upon the particular circumstances involved and we recommend that you obtain professional Deloitte MCS Limited is a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP, which is the United advice before acting or refraining from acting on any of the contents Kingdom affiliate of Deloitte NSE LLP, a member firm of Deloitte Touche of this publication. Deloitte MCS Limited would be pleased to advise Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”). readers on how to apply the principles set out in this publication to their DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent specific circumstances. Deloitte MCS Limited accepts no duty of care or entities. DTTL and Deloitte NSE LLP do not provide services to clients. liability for any loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global action as a result of any material in this publication. network of member firms. © 2019 Deloitte MCS Limited. All rights reserved. 4 Foreword Digital with Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030 Foreword The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) is made up of leading ICT companies, partners and international organisations, all committed to achieving integrated social, environmental and economic sustainability as defined by the transformative Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda. Our vision is to create a sustainable world through responsible, ICT-enabled transformation, using the SDGs as a central framework for action. In particular, GESIwe are focused on researching and addressing climate change (SDG 13), by accelerating the development of digital solutions to usher in an era of innovation and low-carbon growth. We are proud to introduce this new report, #DigitalWithPurpose, which identifies and quantifies the ways in which digital technologies, both established and cutting-edge, are capable of delivering transformative impact against each of the 17 SDGs. It also clearly lays out where these technologies can have a negative impact. The opportunity, both for the ICT sector and the sectors and organisations at the forefront of deployment, is enormous. Given the slow pace of progress against the SDGs, it is also non-negotiable. We conclude this report with some specific commitments for all who are on this journey – the first commitment being to share a common purpose to secure a SMARTer2030. We are grateful to Deloitte, all the GeSI members and the amazing high-level group of external experts who have supported us in developing this thorough and powerful report. We do hope you find it useful and agree to join us, commit, and take action. Luis Neves James Gowen GeSI CEO GeSI Chairman Verizon CSO Digital with Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030 Foreword 5 The Sustainable Development Goals represent the opportunity for our generation to move the world onto a sustainable path. At Deloitte, we place our role in society at the heart of what we do. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters and we embed this ideal in our work every day. By helping our clients to succeed sustainably; by operating responsibly and through our corporate responsibility programmes; we are dedicated to making GESIa global impact. Digital technology is interwoven into all that we do. But digital technology in and of itself does not deliver impact. Rather, it’s how we develop and deploy technology that matters. Through this report, we stand with GeSI to call on the ICT sector, on business, and on governments, to commit to ‘Digital with Purpose.’ This means taking on the 2030 Agenda as our own. It means calling out our intended contribution to the delivery of the SDGs. And, it means identifying how we can use digital technology to maximise our impact. As detailed in this report, digital technology is already being used in ways that can help drive incredible positive change in our world. But there is still so much more to do. Together with our clients, we at Deloitte are committed
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